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Use art to create and tell stories
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Discuss the importance of art in relation to
celebrations
•
Create projects in relation to holidays, seasons,
and our environment
•
Identify one or more well known artists
Aesthetic Valuing
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Talk about reasons artists have for creating
artwork
•
Analyze and discuss his/her artwork including
why he/she created the work, what is the subject
of the work, and why he/she likes or dislikes the
work of art using art vocabulary
Connections and Applications
•
Use the visual language of art as a way of
expressing their personal world, ideas, and
emotions
•
Talk about the various kinds of artwork visual
artists produce
•
Identify a career in art
•
Identify connections between arts and other
disciplines (e.g., learn history through art,
learn about describing words by telling about
artwork)
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Connect their learning of art to other fine arts
such as music or dance
MUSIC
Beat Pattern
•
Demonstrate knowledge of beat awareness
through the use of rhythm sticks, hand clapping,
etc.
•
Demonstrate a steady beat using instruments,
movement, clapping, chants, and songs
•
Perform rhythmic patterns including sounds
and silences
Ear Training
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Demonstrate understanding of same/different
and high/low sounds using hand gestures, signs,
verbal response, etc.
•
Demonstrate understanding of upward/
downward movements of music using hand
gestures, signs, verbal response, etc.
•
Distinguish between tones of instruments and
voices (child, adult, male, female)
Music Reading
•
Begin to verbally identify symbols in music
(such as treble and bass clef, staff, lines, and
spaces) as the written pieces that create a
musical composition
Song Singing
•
Sing simple songs as well as echo and pattern
pieces alone and with others
•
Sing different styles of music including folk,
familiar, cultural, etc. alone and with others
•
Demonstrate healthy use of the singing,
speaking, whispering, and calling voice with
appropriate volume
Technology and Instruments
•
Recognize common instruments by sight
and sound
•
Perform simple rhythmic patterns and sound
effects on instruments to accompany poems,
rhymes, chants, and songs
•
Demonstrate expressive qualities
(e.g., loud-soft, fast-slow) while playing
classroom and ethnic instruments
Movement to Music
•
Respond with purposeful movement while
listening to music (moves to rhythmic patterns,
contrasts in music, or to enhance music)
•
Move rhythmically or dance to music from
other cultures
Performance Etiquette
•
Demonstrate the ability to follow musical/
performance directions
•
Demonstrate the ability to memorize songs
•
Demonstrate the ability to coordinate
movement
•
Gain self-esteem and self-confidence through
positive performance experiences
•
Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior
during performances/events
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Participate in at least one school or class
performance per academic year
Music Appreciation and Connections
•
Listen to various styles of music (classical,
contemporary, familiar, etc.) to develop a basic
understanding of its role, meaning, and/or
components
•
Listen to related stories and facts regarding
various types of music
•
Recognize music of contrasting cultures
•
Identify relationships between music and other
disciplines, such as patterns in math and music
SPANISH
Oral Language
•
Use appropriate Spanish vocabulary related to
greetings, numbers, classroom objects, colors,
days of the week, shapes, parts of the body,
animals, family members, and weather
•
Ask and respond to simple questions about
familiar situations and objects (classroom
objects, people, feelings, possessions)
•
Present memorized material such as reciting a
Spanish rhyme to peers or family members
•
Use Spanish vocabulary and phrases to
demonstrate courtesy (Hello, How are you?,
Good evening)
•
Count in Spanish using the numbers zero
through 30
•
Apply Spanish vocabulary to describe objects
using numbers, shapes, and colors
Reading
•
Demonstrate an understanding of age-
appropriate Spanish stories and songs
•
Retell the events of or summarizes a simple
Spanish story
•
Compare a simple Spanish story to other
stories or real life events
•
Recognize Spanish letters
Writing
•
Write basic vocabulary words with assistance
•
Spell words using basic letter-sound
correspondence (with guidance)
Connections
•
Reinforce and further their understanding of
the Spanish language through other disciplines;
for example, using information about the lives of
Spanish children obtained in Spanish class to
talk about a similar topic in social studies
•
Use age-appropriate Spanish resources to
acquire information and viewpoints and to
complete projects in other classes (picture
dictionaries, picture books, cookbooks)
•
Label the school building spaces with Spanish
words
Language Use and Structure
•
Observe differences in the alphabets of
Spanish and English
•
Compare the representation of animal sounds
in Spanish and English
•
Demonstrate phonemic awareness
Cultural Awareness
•
Demonstrate culturally appropriate behavior
•
Demonstrate an awareness that behaviors
such as gestures and greetings may differ
among cultures
•
Describe and discuss the cultural customs
and traditions of the various Spanish speaking
countries, specifically birthday traditions
•
Identify, in Spanish, the colors of the flags of
some Spanish speaking countries
•
Experience arts of the Spanish cultures
•
Produce a simple Spanish craft
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